2x12 - night shifter
Jan. 27th, 2007 12:52 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
antpowerSo, I've finally watched it...
So, I know everyone is all like ZOMG BEST EPISODE EVER, but I feel a little dissatisfied and... I dunno. Maybe a little bit empty inside. Maybe I need another three or seventeen watches. But I'll post my initial reactions anyway. And my sister's because she is sitting here saying stupid shit.
I mean, it was funny. I like the 'okey-dokey' and I can't stop looking over at my sister and saying 'mandroid'. Mandroid? I liked Ronald.
Sam in the long coat pwns me. But not my sister. We are both amused at his Scully-ness though.
I think there is more to this FBI guy. I think maybe when he said 'there's a monster in there' or whatever that line was, he wasn't necessarily talking about Dean. I think he knows about the demon and his plans for Sam and all the big foreheaded children like him. He did say something about knowing more about JW than Dean thought.
Mandroid?
Dean in the scene on the phone was such a sad woobie I wanted to hug him. And have sex with him.*
My sister thinks if the show is going all Prison Break, they could at least make funny references to it and call each other Michael and Lincoln. And Dean should wear an open shirt like Lincoln. And do crazy rhino eyes when he's trying to figure stuff out. And shaveMichael's Sam's head.
Mandroid?
My sister thinks Dean will go into 'serious meltdown' in the next episode, and it kind of looks that way from the preview thinger. Poor Dean.
I liked that the whole MotW thing was kind of secondary to other stuff, but I think they could've done more with it. I was fully expecting shapeshifter!Sam to angst out and make Dean cry and I think that's part of my disappointment. I mean, I know it was a standalone episode but they could've done some nifty character thinger with it and... I don't know. Kripke, I trust you, I do.
My sister says there should be an episode where Dean dresses up as a pirate.
Okay, I'm having a thought about the shapeshifter thing and how it could be more about Dean and Sam shifting shapes themselves and their roles as hunters and between each other. It's not coherent a thought though. I mean, I guess Sam can never go back now. And he definitely took a more assertive role in this episode, with his beating up the SWAT guys (Sam, I love you and your pretty kicking of the arse!), and I kind of liked how he wanted to protect Ronald from the shapeshifter. By being Scully.
I don't know, I will have to think about this more.
My sister just wrote 'MANDROID?' on a sticky note and stuck it to my cupboard.
Dean's 'we're screwed' at the end killed a little bit of my soul. I mean, every other time there's been a run-in with the fuzz, he's been joking about it and it hasn't bothered him terribly. In The Usual Suspects he was all 'whatevs, we need to find the bad guy and that's what's important' and later on he was joking about being like Dillinger and being on the Most Wanted List when Sam wasn't. [My sister says: his chicken's have come home to roost, haven't they. The Roosting Chickens of Dean Winchester! And then she stuck up another 'MANDROID!' post-it, this time with fancy swirly letters.] Anyway, I think Dean's change in attitude toward being hunted by the police is important, but I don't know why.
My sister thinks it ties back into how he's getting disillusioned about hunting. She is saying about how this season has been about Dean questioning the hunt and Sam is a bit more gung-ho about it, so there's a real role reversal going on there. She thinks it's going to get more like it was in Season 1, when Dean had to coerce Sam into hunting, but with a switcheroo. She says soon Sam will be the one saying 'saving things, hunting people, the family business' and listening to Metallica, while Dean listens to Radiohead. Because the shape is shifting in the relationship between the brothers.
But then she thinks that maybe Dean's changing feelings toward the hunt mirror his changing feelings toward his brother. In a gay way. Which would explain the sad look-away from the camera in Playthings when Sam said he was butch and overcompensating, because really, Dean wanted Sam to say 'it's because we love each other, let's go have hot sex in the shower'.
She just stuck up another sticky note. With pretty colours. And daisies.
I think that's all I have to say.
Mandroid?
So, I know everyone is all like ZOMG BEST EPISODE EVER, but I feel a little dissatisfied and... I dunno. Maybe a little bit empty inside. Maybe I need another three or seventeen watches. But I'll post my initial reactions anyway. And my sister's because she is sitting here saying stupid shit.
I mean, it was funny. I like the 'okey-dokey' and I can't stop looking over at my sister and saying 'mandroid'. Mandroid? I liked Ronald.
Sam in the long coat pwns me. But not my sister. We are both amused at his Scully-ness though.
I think there is more to this FBI guy. I think maybe when he said 'there's a monster in there' or whatever that line was, he wasn't necessarily talking about Dean. I think he knows about the demon and his plans for Sam and all the big foreheaded children like him. He did say something about knowing more about JW than Dean thought.
Mandroid?
Dean in the scene on the phone was such a sad woobie I wanted to hug him. And have sex with him.*
My sister thinks if the show is going all Prison Break, they could at least make funny references to it and call each other Michael and Lincoln. And Dean should wear an open shirt like Lincoln. And do crazy rhino eyes when he's trying to figure stuff out. And shave
Mandroid?
My sister thinks Dean will go into 'serious meltdown' in the next episode, and it kind of looks that way from the preview thinger. Poor Dean.
I liked that the whole MotW thing was kind of secondary to other stuff, but I think they could've done more with it. I was fully expecting shapeshifter!Sam to angst out and make Dean cry and I think that's part of my disappointment. I mean, I know it was a standalone episode but they could've done some nifty character thinger with it and... I don't know. Kripke, I trust you, I do.
My sister says there should be an episode where Dean dresses up as a pirate.
Okay, I'm having a thought about the shapeshifter thing and how it could be more about Dean and Sam shifting shapes themselves and their roles as hunters and between each other. It's not coherent a thought though. I mean, I guess Sam can never go back now. And he definitely took a more assertive role in this episode, with his beating up the SWAT guys (Sam, I love you and your pretty kicking of the arse!), and I kind of liked how he wanted to protect Ronald from the shapeshifter. By being Scully.
I don't know, I will have to think about this more.
My sister just wrote 'MANDROID?' on a sticky note and stuck it to my cupboard.
Dean's 'we're screwed' at the end killed a little bit of my soul. I mean, every other time there's been a run-in with the fuzz, he's been joking about it and it hasn't bothered him terribly. In The Usual Suspects he was all 'whatevs, we need to find the bad guy and that's what's important' and later on he was joking about being like Dillinger and being on the Most Wanted List when Sam wasn't. [My sister says: his chicken's have come home to roost, haven't they. The Roosting Chickens of Dean Winchester! And then she stuck up another 'MANDROID!' post-it, this time with fancy swirly letters.] Anyway, I think Dean's change in attitude toward being hunted by the police is important, but I don't know why.
My sister thinks it ties back into how he's getting disillusioned about hunting. She is saying about how this season has been about Dean questioning the hunt and Sam is a bit more gung-ho about it, so there's a real role reversal going on there. She thinks it's going to get more like it was in Season 1, when Dean had to coerce Sam into hunting, but with a switcheroo. She says soon Sam will be the one saying 'saving things, hunting people, the family business' and listening to Metallica, while Dean listens to Radiohead. Because the shape is shifting in the relationship between the brothers.
But then she thinks that maybe Dean's changing feelings toward the hunt mirror his changing feelings toward his brother. In a gay way. Which would explain the sad look-away from the camera in Playthings when Sam said he was butch and overcompensating, because really, Dean wanted Sam to say 'it's because we love each other, let's go have hot sex in the shower'.
She just stuck up another sticky note. With pretty colours. And daisies.
I think that's all I have to say.
Mandroid?
